Ankit Mehra

Ankit Mehra

Favorite films

  • After Hours
  • Paris, Texas
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Husbands

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  • Live and Let Die

    ★★★½

  • Take Out

    ★★★½

  • Manhattan

    ★★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★★½

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  • Live and Let Die

    Live and Let Die

    ★★★½

    Roger Moore’s arrival into the James Bond franchise and the beginning of one of the most fun, fast-paced Bond eras we’ve witnessed. 

    Paul McCartney’s anthem for the film is also one of my favourite Bond songs and opening sequences across the series’ filmography. 

    Tough to beat a Roger Moore-era Bond film on a Sunday afternoon.

  • Take Out

    Take Out

    ★★★½

    Sean Baker’s Take Out is cinéma vérité at its very best. Capturing the raw immigrant experience over the course of one day, lower Manhattan becomes both his muse and his medium as a director to tell a complicated and profound story without a traditional narrative layer. 

    Very simply, Ming Ding (Charles Jang) has until the end of the day to come up with the money he owes to a loan shark. Beginning his day being woken up by the shark’s…

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  • That Man from Rio

    That Man from Rio

    ★★★★

    A movie that marries a Tintin-inspired adventure with the picturesque setting of René Burri and Oscar Niemeyer’s visually stunning Brazil of the 1960s - what more could you want? The nerd in me was obsessed with it. 

    That Man From Rio doesn’t pretend to be anything it isn’t; It’s fun, it’s light and it’s the type of movie you don’t see made anymore at the calibre Philippe de Broca made this at. 

    Aided by Jean-Paul Belmondo doing his own stunts…

  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★½

    Ani (Mikey Madison) is a stripper in Brooklyn who, by the sheer fact that she knows Russian, winds up with a presumed oligarch’s son, taken into a world seemingly foreign to her. Private jets, parties, cash, no rules or responsibilities - this is what “making it” looks like when life feels repetitive. 

    Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn) is the son who, at 21, has nothing figured out other than he wants to constantly push his reality away from him. He doesn’t want…

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